I was given a large tin of M&S delicious shortbread last Christmas in a lovely tin. I have many biscuits left in the tin! I did have one a few days ago and it tasted fine, but being six months old now they are probably bordering on being unfit for human consumption, surely?

If you were me would you:

Bin them and use the lovely tin for something else

Continue to munch as they are for the next six months

Do something else with them, if so, what? Cheesecake base?

By the way, I hate food waste, but not as much as I hate food poisoning!

My favourites. Eat them, offer them to your mum etc. be a bit greedy for a treat! That's what food gifts are for! They do work crumbled up as a 'deconstructed' fruit crumble if you really can't eat them all.

I suppose I was bordering on thinking that because they are all butter, there could be a chance they'd go rancid and go off, so best be used up quick, but I'm not normally a biscuit eater, well not these days, I try to avoid. But they are so good!

I think I have enough suggestions here to make sure they are not binned. And I am going to add another idea that just popped into my head. Use them as scoops for lemon or rhubarb fool.